The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-04-02
MARYLAND Affairs.

The municipal election in Hagerstown on
Monday resulted in continued Democratic
control.
One white and two colored women died
suddenly in Baltimore on Tuesday of heart
disease.
James Winchester Owings died in Towson.
town Wednesday morning in the Slst year of
his age.
Down in Somerset, on the Eastern Shore,
potatoes have been planted and strawberries
are in bloom.
A company has been organized in Freder-
lex, with present capital of SIS, 900, to manu-
facture stockings.
Andrew Banks, of Reisterstown, slipped
on an orange peel in Baltimore last Saturday
night, and fell and broke an arm.
]. Frank Morrison resigned the wardenship
of the Baltimore city jail on Tuesday, and
John Waters was elected in his place.
George W. Beall, a wel-known and es-
teemed citizen of Urbana district, Frederick
county, died on Wednesday, in the Seth year
of his age.
Thirteen unions have been organized in
Washington county, under the auspices OF the
Womenis Christian Temperance Union, by
Mrs E. A. Black, of Baltimore.
The Cambridge Advance is the name of
a weekly paper to be established shortly IN
Cambridge, in the interest of the colored race.
1t will. be owned and edited by colored people.
The wife of Severn P. Mason, of Aisquth's
Island, Dorchester county, some days ago
presented her husband with bouncing twins
a boy and girl. Mr.. Mason is 70 years OF
age.
The grand jury of Howard county was dis
charged on Monday. They found IL true
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indictments for violation of the local option
law.
| The Baltimores defeated the Pennsylvania
University club at Baltimore on Wednesday,
| by to in a seven-inning contest. A writer
in the Sun says great things of Mr.. Barnie's
new club.
A few DAYS ago shares of the stock of the
First National Bank of Frederick, par value
500, sold at S182, and shares of the Freder-
icktown Saving Institution, par value 500,
sold at $780,
Elisha Parr, of Baltimore, committed sui
eide at New Haven, Connecticut, last Satur-
day; and on the same day Mrs. Frederick
Neumeyer, also of Baltimore, committed sui
eide in New York.
Some thirty or forty families will leave
Frederick this spring to seek homes where
business is better. Some families are also
emigrating from the county. Better try West
minister and Carroll.
Robert Stokes, one of the judges of the
Orphans Court for Frederick county, has
rendered his resignation of that office on ac-
count of being physically unable to perform
the duties required of him.
Mr.. VIM. Clark, ST., one of the most wide
Unknown and respected citizens of Howard
county, died suddenly at his home, near
al, l,akr Lodi
morning about ten O'Clock.
Salisbury, that was nearly destroyed last
November, is rising from her ashes. Fifteen
houses have been completed, five are in course
of erection, and about thirty more will be
commenced in a few weeks.
Alfred Holland, of Hartford county, who
was recently released from an insane asylum,
while suffering intense pain few days ago,
cut his stomach open under the idea he could
then take the pain out He died.
VIM. r. Travers, native of Baltimore, but
for some years a resident of New York, died
in Bermuda on the 10Th of March, and his
remains arrived in New York on Saturday
His wife, who survives him, is daughter of
the late Reverdy johnson.
Peter Fowble died on Tuesday, In the 91st
year of his age, at his home, in the fifth dis
trict Of Baltimore county. He was one of
the Old Defenders of Baltimore in the war of
ls12-l4. He belonged to a large and we'll
known Baltimore county family.
Foreign exports from Baltimore during
March were valued at SIS, l65, ia and includ-
LIZA, III bushels corn, $50, 445 bushels wheat
| IS, 1899 barrels and BOG, 493 sacks flour, IL, 291
| bales cotton, 2, 1879 hogsheads leaf tobacco,
IS, $50 cases canned goods, 905 head cattle,
l0,650 tons coal, &c,
Laurel, Prince Georges county, Is spread
ing herself 1t is about half way between
baltimore and Washington, on the B. 4 O.
Railroad, and is inhabited largely by persons
doing business in the two cities. Some twenty
houses will go up there this spring. The town
has about 1900 population, and no liquor is
sold there.
railroad war is in progress near Cumber-
land. The disputed territory is the Cookery
| farm, across which the Piedmont and Cum
berland Railroad desire to build their tracks.
The rails have been twice laid, and as often
torn up. Some eight or ten men have been
arrested for the offense. The lessee of the
farm has strong guard on watch to prevent
relaying.
President John NJ. Hood, of the Western
Maryland Railroad, called on Mayor Hodges,
of Baltimore, on Monday, and informed him
that the road was doing better business now
than at any time in its history. Its receipts
for the last six months are $4,000 in excess
of the same time last year, and would proba-
bly, amount to $50, 900 in excess at the close
of the year. He stated the good showing was
the result of the consolidation of the various
roads now known as the Baltimore and Har-
risburg Railway.
| A strange case of the adoption of anothers
offspring is on exhibition at Bladensburg,
Prince Georges county. A young setter, the
property of DR.. c. 0. Lewis, shortly after
| giving birth lost her litter of pups. About the
same time a SOW, soon after becoming a
mother, died, whereupon the setter adopted
the motherless pigs, and nurses them with all
| the tenderness of bona fide mother, She is
frequently seen licking and caressing them
with the pride of genuine maternity, and il
stranger approaches the box in which she has
| domiciled her children by adoption she growls
him off as savagely as if her rights were real.
The pigs seem to suffer no Inconvenience from
the change of mother.
| The fifty.ninth session of the Maryland An
nual Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church will assemble in Easton, on the 9th
of April. The conference includes the
whole of the State of Maryland. the District
of Columbia and section of Delaware and
Virginia bordering. 1t consists of ITO min
listers, who will be accompanied with a like
number of lay delegates. The membership
represented is about 16, 900 and church prop
erty aggregating three. quarters of million,
not including the college property at West
minister, and its superanuated fund of seven.
ty-fve thousand dollars. The increase of
members for the year is about 8, 200, or nearly
20 per cent. There has also been large ac-
cretion of churches and parsonages.
C. S. Wertsner, of the Baltimore Gun Club,
returned to Baltimore on Thursday from
Charlottesville, Va, where he had been to
shoot match with DR.. Miller The match
came off Tuesday, and the Baltimore man
won by breaking 20 clay pigeons to IA by the
Virginian. Two other members of the Balti.
more Club accompanied Mr.. Wertsner and
took part in two days pool shooting There
were over thirty contestants in the pool shoot
ing from Charlottesville, Staunton and other
points, and out of 25 matches the Baltimore.
ans were first in "a. About 500 live pigeons
and 400 clay pigeons were shot at during the
two days.
The statements made concerning the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad deal were on Thurs
day of a more positive character than at any
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